Software Intern

Are you excited to discover and adapt new signal processing software to meet evolving needs? Are you looking to work alongside experts and scientists who share your technical background, passion, and intellectual curiosity? Are you a continual learner, quickly adapting your experience to new problems and filling in the gaps in your knowledge as needed? If you answer yes, this is the role for you!

Today, Electronic Warfare (EW) is a growing enterprise - protecting the warfighter and our national security against ever-adapting threats. Leidos currently has an opening for a Software Intern to support programs in San Diego, CA with opportunities for a motivated candidate to lead tasks and/or efforts.

Primary Responsibilities

Taking direction from your Team or Task Lead, while working in small groups or individually, you will:

• Work in small teams or individually to achieve program success
• Communicate results in briefings and written material to team and management as appropriate
• Take direction from Team or Task Lead
• Develop software models in Matlab or C++
• Analyze results from simulation or real data to identify root causes and trends
• Plan and perform analytical and engineering research, design development, and other assignments in conformance with design, engineering and customer specifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Must be U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
• Must be enrolled in Bachelor's Degree program in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field, and have completed at least 1 year of curriculum with a minimum 3.0 GPA
• Experience with Matlab, C/C++, or similar language
• Proven record of innovation for develop complex software (commensurate with education level)
• Adaptability to new challenges with a strong motivation to grow and learn in new areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred: Secret or higher-level clearance
• Analytical skills and experience in the areas of software design and development
• Academic projects focused on software design and development

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

May 26, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $48,100.00 - $86,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.